Imperialism, Reform and the Making of Englishness in Jane Eyre [Hardcover]

This new study demonstrates the precision of Bront?'s historical setting of Jane Eyre . Thomas addresses the historical worlding of Bront? and her characters, mapping relations of genre and gender across the novel's articulation of questions of imperial history and relations, reform, racialization and the making of Englishness.Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Christianity and the State of Slavery The Tropical Extravagance of Bertha Mason Monstrous Martyrdom and the Overshadowing Tree of Philanthropy The Ferment of Restlessness Playing Jane Eyre at the Victoria Theatre in 1848 An 1859 Caribbean?Reworking of? Jane Eyre Appendix 1: Timeline Notes Works Cited Works Consulted Index

'In this groundbreaking study, Sue Thomas convincingly dates the action and setting of the novel...an important addition to the critical approaches to Jane Eyre ...' - Bront?Blog

SUE THOMAS?is Professor of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of The Worlding of Jean Rhys, co-author with Ann Blake and Leela Gandhi of England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction, and compiler of Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952): A Bibliography, and has published extensively on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century women writers, and decolonising literatures.